To run this MONSTER image featuring 4 operating systems working out of the box, you need a 32GB (or higher) micro-SD card, and of course a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. The card I used is a SanDisk Ultra Class 10 32GB micro-SD, which can be picked up relatively cheaply online.

This setup gives you around 9GB each for both Ubuntu/Linaro and Raspbian installs, and uses the entire micro-SD card for storage on the various partitions.

Note: Do NOT run rpi-update on the included Ubuntu Linaro, it WILL render the card unbootable!

The included OS's are pre-configured by default for UK users and for use over HDMI with audio. They can of course be re-configured for international users and for analogue output.

The image can be flashed on Windows using Win32DiskImager, or using dd on Linux. (Although it's based on NOOBS, the installation is as for non-NOOBS images). As it's a 32GB image when uncompressed, it will take a long time to flash to a card, so please be patient. I recommend extracting the RAR file to a compressed file system to save disk space.

Note: I am currently seeding this over a slow ADSL connection, so I would appreciate any seeders, and if anyone is willing to host this over http it would be fantastic!

I am completely new to Pi. Just took it out of the box yesterday, downloaded this image, used Win32 Disk Imager to put img on 64 GB card. After it runs, the card shows approximately 130 MB, the pi tries to boot then nothing. I get a rainbow square on screen then the LED just turns red. Any ideas?

The image above is still available - the torrent file is hosted on my Dropbox, you need to load this into a torrent client (such as Vuze) to download the image. It still has seeders.

However, if you want to multiboot, I would strongly recommend using BerryBoot instead.

Before writing BerryBoot to an SD card, I recommend SDFormatter for Windows and Mac, the same as with NOOBS.Download the appropriate version from the BerryBoot site for either Raspberry Pi 1 or Raspberry Pi 2, and extract the archive to the freshly formatted SD card, before safely removing the device.

Then boot this card on a Raspberry Pi 2 with Internet over Ethernet, and from the menu, you can install not only the latest official Raspbian, but also a version of Ubuntu Linaro with LXDE for Pi 2 (which can easily be updated to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr), as well as the latest OpenELEC for Pi 2 (with Kodi Media Center).

There is even a version of Android KitKat (with no graphics acceleration yet, so not really usable - that depends on the open-sourced drivers Broadcom released being made into a suitable driver stack). There are loads of other Linux distros available for it too.

However, my personal recommendation now for a multi-boot Raspberry Pi 2 setup is:

Use BerryBoot to install Raspbian, Ubuntu Linaro, and OpenELEC (3 of the 4 OS's I included in my "Monster" RPi 2 image), and perhaps non-accelerated Android (very slow but proof of concept), then update them all (including Ubuntu to 14.04 LTS).

The only downside is that RISC OS Pi does not work on BerryBoot, so you'll need a separate SD card if you also want to use RISC OS (unless the RISC OS Pi team can make a BerryBoot-compatible version). Other than that, I strongly recommend BerryBoot over NOOBS for multi-booting. Each OS installed gets the full SD card space available instead of a small fraction, and you can add and remove OS's easily, so this is simply a much more efficient use of the SD card.

Update on the above rainbow screen issue....I do a lot of pc things so I had an older version of the image burning software and was using a Sandisk wireless thumb drive with a 64 gb ds card installed. I updated to the latest version of the image software and immediately received errors trying to burn the file. Swapped to a Kodak sd adapter and the burn took a few hours. I was able to get a boot from that image but haven't experimented much other than that. I'll keep updating as I do more.